387 A Thousand Miles of Rescue
Black descends, silent city.
"Linna?"
Looking at the figure emerging on the communicator, Al was stunned for a moment. He thought Carter had something to do to find him, but unexpectedly he saw Lina.
"Senior Al, there is something I want to talk to you alone."
The sound from the communicator was a little distorted, but the content made Al's heart tremble slightly. Could it be...?
Just as Al's heart was full of various thoughts, he heard Carter's smiley voice coming from the communicator: "Ah, this is of course supposed to be, I'll leave now."
"I'm just reporting to Al!"
Lina's angry voice came out. Even if the figure projected by the communicator couldn't see the expression clearly, Al could still imagine Lina's pretty face tight. Tsk tsk, it could make Lina, who has always been extremely gentle. This Carter is also a talent.
After half a minute of silence, Lina spoke again with the sound of closing the door, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she went straight to the topic: "Senior Al, the Ebony Blade has appeared."
"Oh, Lina...what? Ebony Blade?!"
Al was a little absent-minded at the beginning, not knowing what he was thinking. He realized after halfway through his words, and immediately sat up straight, and the messy thoughts in his mind disappeared: "Can you be sure?"
Lina did not answer Al's question, but narrated it in a very calm voice: "In the past week, there have been five murders in Xueman City, and the six dead were all women. The first case was... all five murders were headless cases, and the murderer did not leave any useful clues."
After briefly narrating the five murders, Lina began to talk about her investigation again. Her voice was still calm, but even though Al was stupid, she could hear the suppressed anger in Lina's voice: "Of course, this is just the investigation result of the guards of Xueman City. The fact is that, except for the last case, the murderer did not find any relationship with the victim and left no traces, in the other four cases, the murderer left hair and dander at the scene, and left saliva in the victim's body. But when I mentioned this to the guards of Xueman City, the guards did not think these things were useful. After repeated questioning, the guards said that these traces were not left by the murderer."
"Has the murderer been ignored?" Al murmured in a low voice, looking up at Lina's image: "How are you sure that these things are left by the murderer?"
Lina's image still looked at Al, but did not answer his question: "I then visited the families of three of the victims, sought clues from the victims' families, and learned from the victims' families an important task, the victims' boyfriends.
Interestingly, although the boyfriends of these victims did not use the same name, the victims' families described him very similarly, especially the descriptions of appearance, except for individual synonyms, were almost exactly the same."
Lina said "interesting", but her tone became colder and colder. Although she couldn't see her expression clearly, Al was sure that her eyes must have been red.
"Same boyfriend? Those guards should have ignored this, right?" Al smiled bitterly, and Lina's guess was basically confirmed in his heart.
"Yes," Lina's image nodded, "not only the guards, but even the victim's family members did not think that this person was the murderer, and even gave him part of the victim's inheritance."
"Does the murderer get the gift of the inheritance? It seems that I heard Aye say," Al smacked his lips, "I will send another shadow blade into Xueman City and inform Lord Balguff. What else do you have?"
Al's eyes were a little expectant, but Lina was silent for a minute before speaking again. Her hoarse voice surprised Al: "The murderer is Auston."
"What!"
Al suddenly stood up, and the chair fell to the ground with a bang. An invisible wave spread around Al as the center, and the projections on the communicator were blurred for a moment.
“It’s Auston.”
Lina's voice was still hoarse, and tears seemed to fall in the image.
"Don't worry," Al said hurriedly, "I'll hurry over with the elite of Shadow Blade!"
Before he finished speaking, Al activated another communicator. After giving several commands quickly, he looked at Lina's image again: "Lina, from now on, you will stay in the chamber of commerce and not leave. No matter what happens, you must wait for me to come over and talk, okay?"
"good!"
Lina choked and nodded heavily, then cut off the communication. At the last moment, Al clearly saw that big drops of tears slid down Lina's face as if they had broken a line.
"Ebony Blade...Auston...Lina..."
Al kept repeating these words in his mouth, and his body seemed to have been exhausted. He leaned softly on the table beside him, and he didn't stand up again after the door was knocked.
He pushed open the door, strode out, looked at the elite Shadow Blade standing in a row outside the door, and took a deep breath: "Everyone, go to Xueman with me!"
The Silent City suddenly became in chaos.
As the only senior executive who stayed in Jingcheng, Al was not able to leave at will, but the matter of Xueman City made him anxious. He simply called his assistant halfway through, and issued instructions while walking, and arranged everything for the next month of Jingcheng. Then he walked into the dwarf elevator with trepidation.
With a sound of steam and feeling the power coming from his feet, Al took a deep breath and glanced at the Shadow Blade elites surrounding him: "Everyone, this mission is extraordinary, I hope everyone will be ready for death in advance."
silence.
No one responded to Al's words, but the forty-six eyes were full of ease and confidence. The Shadow Blades did not care, but when they became Shadow Blades, they had already abandoned their personal life and death. From the beginning, they regarded themselves as the sharp blade of Silent City, and from then on they ignored life and death and fought for Silent City.
"Very good," looked around, Al nodded and explained the details of the mission to the Shadow Blades: "A week ago, the Ebony Blade, the demonic artifact sealed in Longxiao Palace, was stolen. The person who stole the Ebony Blade was bewitched by the demonic god Meifala. He committed five murders in a week. The methods were extremely cruel. Moreover, due to the demonic artifact, the guards of Xueman City could not pursue him, so we need to help. This mission..."
Chapter completed!